Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Construction of the Fitzroy Dock, Cockatoo Island
- In
- Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage ‘The Value of Engineering Heritage': Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1985, pp. 63-68
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858252503
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.724635658978902
- Abstract
Fitzroy Dock was the first large-scale engineering project attempted in New South Wales. It was built entirely by prisoners detained on Cockatoo Island, to the design of Gother Kerr Mann, a 'military engineer', who also managed the construction and supervised the dock's operation.
Related Published resources
isPartOf
- Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage 'The Value of Engineering Heritage': Preprints of Papers. (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1985), 110 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858252503. Details